I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
